The Whites are enemies of heaven : climate Caucasianism and Asian ecological protection

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The Whites are enemies of heaven : climate Caucasianism and Asian ecological protection

Title remainder

climate Caucasianism and Asian ecological protection

Statement of responsibility

Mark W. Driscoll

Creator

• Driscoll, Mark, (Mark W)
• Driscoll, Mark, (Mark W.,)

Subject

• Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- Japan
• Imperialism -- Environmental aspects -- China
• China -- History -- 19th century
• Imperialism -- Sociological aspects
• Japan -- History -- 19th century
• Imperialism -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
• Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- China

Language

eng

Summary

"In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"-the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice"--

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Dewey number

304.28095109034

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography